The robustness
of midlatitude weather pattern changes due to Arctic sea ice loss.
Those waves, in turn, led to the formation
at midlatitudes of high - pressure systems, or «ridges.»
This work highlights that observed trends in
midlatitude weather patterns are complex and likely not simply understood in terms of Arctic amplification alone»
The DTR reduction by clouds is largest in warm and dry seasons such as autumn over
northern midlatitudes when latentheat release is limited by the soil moisture content.
And not just in the sparsely populated polar regions: In the 1980s, researchers began to realize that stratospheric ozone was also thinning above populous
midlatitude regions such as northern Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Petoukhov et al. (34) showed that these patterns could result from the trapping of free quasistationary barotropic Rossby waves with zonal wave numbers k equal or close to the three integer values indicated above, within the predominantly zonally oriented
midlatitude waveguides.
In particular, my foci include modeling trends in the timing of transition seasons, such as spring, and evaluating the influences of Arctic amplification and sea ice variability
on midlatitude extreme weather events.
Wu, Y. & Smith, K. L. Response of Northern Hemisphere
midlatitude circulation to Arctic amplification in a simple atmospheric general circulation model.
This reduction would have been global in extent and year - round, with near total destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer in the tropics and a 550 % increase in DNA - damaging UV wavelengths in the Northern
Hemisphere midlatitudes by 2065.
Xu, R.T. Cederwall, P. Bechtold, A.D. Del Genio, S.A. Klein, D.G. Cripe, S.J. Ghan, D. Gregory, S.F. Iacobellis, S.K. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J.C. Petch, D.A. Randall, L.D. Rotstayn, R.C.J. Somerville, Y.C. Sud, K. von Salzen, G.K. Walker, A. Wolf, J.J. Yio, G.J. Zhang, and M. Zhang, 2002: Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parameterizations under summertime
midlatitude continental conditions.
Tselioudis, G., and W.B. Rossow, 2006: Climate feedback implied by observed radiation and precipitation changes
with midlatitude storm strength and frequency.
Gordon, N.D., J.R. Norris, C.P. Weaver, and S.A. Klein, 2005: Cluster analysis of cloud regimes and characteristic dynamics of
midlatitude synoptic systems in observations and a model.
Many factors related to greenhouse gas — induced climate change may feed
into midlatitude weather anomalies.
When those waves get large, we tend to see very persistent weather patterns
across midlatitudes.
Rangwala I., E. Sinsky and J. R. Miller (April 2016): Variability in projected elevation dependent warming in boreal
midlatitude winter in CMIP5 climate models and its potential drivers.
As part of his joint appointment, and bolstered by additional support from PNNL's broad climate expertise, Houze will continue to advance understanding of ocean and land convection, tropical cyclones,
midlatitude atmospheric fronts, and how mountain ranges effect storms that are the atmosphere's major precipitation producers.
If this tropical warming is combined with a cooler North Atlantic Ocean from AMOC slowdown and an increase in
midlatitude eddy energy, we can anticipate more severe baroclinic storms.
Until now, the dispute has focused on how disappearing sea ice might be favoring
extreme midlatitude weather, such as floods in Texas or heat waves in Russia.
Researchers attributed the surprising early melt this year to weather conditions, and more specifically, a warm
midlatitude air mass getting stuck over the ice sheet.
Finds that changes in the tropical and
midlatitudes Atlantic salinity levels are not significant compared to internal variability
Tselioudis, G., and C. Jakob, 2002: Evaluation of
midlatitude cloud properties in a weather and a climate model: Dependence on dynamic regime and spatial resolution.
Kaspi, Y., and T. Schneider, 2013: The role of stationary eddies in
shaping midlatitude storm tracks.
Schneider, T., T. Bischoff, and H. Plotka, 2015: Physics of changes in synoptic
midlatitude temperature variability.
In an email, he pointed out that research isn't yet unanimous on the idea that Arctic sea ice loss is
making midlatitude winters colder.
The impact of
midlatitude sea surface temperature anomalies on the annular modes is thought to be small, at least on intraseasonal suggest interannual timescales.
The LCTC simulation also has
cooler midlatitude continents and warmer oceans than the high - CO2 scenario, and a tropical climate which is significantly more El Niño - like.
But Trenberth, suspecting that global warming was also playing a role, looked beyond the Atlantic to temperature patterns throughout Earth's tropical and
midlatitude waters.
The largest pressurized balloon to be launched by NASA has set a record for endurance: the
longest midlatitude flight by a large scientific balloon.
«The skeptics (of the link between Arctic warming and extreme weather events) actually tend to be some of the real top
midlatitude dynamics climate scientists,» Overland said in an interview.
Phrases with «midlatitude»